Wamda

Saudi Arabia

Maharah acquires a strategic stake in UAE's Bloovo

Source: Entreprenuer Bloovo, one of UAE’s algorithm-based online recruitment platforms, has brought Saudi-based Maharah Human...

acquisition HR saudi

U.A.E

VR in airports: Driving sales, beyond entertainment

In early 2015, the Australian flag carrier Qantas Airways, in partnership with Samsung, brought Virtual Reality (VR) to its first-class...

uae Entertainment tech

U.A.E

Workers’ safety and tracking device WakeCap raised $300K

WakeCap, raised $300,000 from CCC (Consolidated Contractors Company), a construction group with projects across Middle East, Asia and...

uae WakeCap Investment

U.A.E

$33B of lost remittances could be regained through the Blockchain, and this UAE startup is on it

Fintech startups are continuously bringing innovative solutions to cater to the large unbanked population. According to the World...

uae Dinarii Cash Fintech

U.A.E

Four startups from the travel and tourism industry won Intelak’s third cohort

Four Dubai-based startups aiming at transforming the aviation, travel, and tourism industries graduated on April 30 from the...

uae Intelak GE

U.A.E

Hospitality veteran invests $4M in Dubai-based virtual hotel startup to drive its expansion plan

MaisonPrive, a ‘virtual hotel’ operator that offers luxury apartments and villas to business and leisure visitors to Dubai,...

uae Funding MaisonPrive

U.A.E

Abu Dhabi’s Mubadala acquires minority stake in NY-based Phoenician Capital

Abu Dhabi-based Mubadala Investment Company acquired a minority stake in the general partner of Phoenician Capital, a New York-based...

uae Mubadala Investment Company acquisition

U.A.E

Endeavor Scale Up 2018

Scale-Up UAE is Endeavor UAE’s annual, scale-up focused conference, where some of the most promising entrepreneurs from the UAE and...

uae Endeavor UAE SANAD

U.A.E

Hyperloop Transportation Technologies signs first commercial hyperloop system in the UAE

Hyperloop Transportation Technologies (HyperloopTT) revealed the signing of an agreement with Aldar Properties, one of the leading real...

uae Hyperloop Transportation

U.A.E

The Plug and Play ADGM program will kick off in Q3 2018

Plug and Play (PNP), one of the world’s largest global innovation platforms, and Abu Dhabi Global Market (ADGM), the International...

uae ADGM Plug and Play

Jordan

Jamalon to launch express personalized photo albums service in the Middle East in partnership with Taopix

Jamalon, the Middle East region’s largest online book store with a catalogue of over 10 million titles, announced a strategic...

Jordan uae Jamalon

U.A.E

AWS Summit Dubai 2018

Whether you are new to AWS, or an experienced user, AWS Summit Dubai will give you the inspiration and technical knowledge you need to get...

AWS Amazon Web Services AWS Summit

U.A.E

FUTURE PROOFED - Ellevate Dubai 2018 Forum

If you're worried about how technology is going to disrupt your workplace or industry and want to find out what skills you need to...

uae Dubai Ellevate

Regional

World AI Show Dubai

Dubai is set to host the first edition of World AI Show in the wake of the ‘Smart Dubai Government' initiative. The...

uae AI Artificial intelligence

U.A.E

MAGNiTT raised a $1M Seed round

Dubai-based MAGNiTT.com, one of the largest investment data platforms for investors, entrepreneurs, and corporates in the Middle East,...

uae MAGNiTT Seed funding

U.A.E

Mubadala Investment Company participates in $15M Series A investment round in US airspace awareness firm

Fortem Technologies, an innovator in airspace awareness and intelligence, announced closing $15 million Series A funding round led by DCVC...

uae usa Mubadala Investment Company

U.A.E

Mohammed bin Rashid Innovation Fund to provide a $27M financial support during 2018

“The Mohammed bin Rashid Innovation Fund (MBRIF) plans to provide financial support aggregating AED 100 million (US $27.2 million)...

uae Funding Mohammed bin Rashid Innovation Fund to provide a $27M financial support during 2018

U.A.E

DIFC and MEVP sign agreement to strengthen regional technology venture capital ecosystem

Dubai International Financial Centre (DIFC), one of the leading international financial hubs in the Middle East, Africa and South Asia...

uae DIFC MEVP

U.A.E

Dubai-based certified car marketplace raises another $1M

CarSwitch.com, the UAE’s first marketplace for certified cars, has secured an additional $1 million investment led by Dubai Angel...

uae carswitch.com marketplace

U.A.E

When innovation complements an Emirate’s rich tourism offering

This article is a crosspost from Fikra Labs. The direct contribution of the travel and tourism sector to the UAE’s GDP was AED...

uae Fikra Labs Department of Culture and Tourism – Abu Dhabi

U.A.E

Marketplace builder behind joigifts closes $1.5 M Seed Round

Dubai-based Enhance, a holding company that builds online marketplaces for the Middle East and Africa, has raised a Seed Round of $1.5...

uae Enhance joigifts

U.A.E

When business travel and leisure mix: A look at Abu Dhabi’s MICE sector

This article is a crosspost from Fikra Labs. In 2016, $1.2 trillion was spent on business travel around the world, nearly one quarter...

uae Abu Dhbai Fikra Labs

U.A.E

Mumzworld secures its largest funding round to date

Mumzworld, one of the Middle East North Africa (MENA) leading ecommerce players dedicated to mothers, babies and children, today announced...

uae Mumzworld Wamda Capital

U.A.E

Dubai Tourism & Commerce Marketing joins the Emirates Group and GE as a principal partner of Intelak

Intelak, one of the first industry and technology-focused incubators in the MENA region, announced that Dubai Tourism & Commerce...

uae Intelak incubation

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